LA CROSSE, Wis (WKBT) - A $1 million grant will help Minnesotans struggling to get treatment for opioid addiction. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) and Sen. Tina Smith (D) announced the University of Minnesota received the grant funding from the U.S.…
The fight to eliminate opioid addiction in our area is continuing with a workshop in La Crosse.
Purdue Pharma wants a lawsuit dismissed that accuses the company of profiting from the opioid crisis by aggressively marketing OxyContin.
An "alarming" number of US patients received a highly potent form of opioid that is 100 times more powerful than morphine and that they never should have been prescribed, according to a new study.
A young Vermont mother who died as a result of opioid addiction is being memorialized by her family in a fearless obituary calling for a more open understanding of the illness that took her life.
In a rare bipartisan moment, the House on Friday passed the final version of a large package that aims to combat the opioid epidemic.
It's an all-time low for people trying to get high. Some are deliberately and intentionally harming their pets in order to get a prescription for opioids.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that it was not cruel and unusual punishment to put a person who is on probation in jail after one positive test for drugs.
Percocet is a painkiller that's part of a family of drugs known as opioids. Though some are derived naturally, such as heroin or morphine, others are synthesized in a lab, including hydrocodone and oxycodone. Percocet is the brand name of a drug that mixes oxycodone and acetaminophen, the generic name for drugs such as Tylenol.
Big Pharma should pay the billions it will take to fix the opioid crisis it created in Arkansas, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit says.
